Can OVM VMs run on Sparc, on SAN?

User_Y2Y3I

Hi,

I have few x86 servers, with Linux installed on them. I configured OVM and it is all good with SAN storage.

We need some Sparc based platform too. That means, instead of x86, we will be needing Sparc servers. As per few notes VM can only reside on repository and repository can be created only with NFS and not by SAN.

I want to have clarification on this. Will VMs be not slow, if they will sit on NFS because NFS will be slower than SAN? Even if we don't need clustering, can't we have VMs on SAN if underlying host is SPARC server?

Thanks

Nik

Hi.

There is some confusion here as different products have been renamed and partially integrated.

OVM for SPRAC (LDOM) can use SAN or many other features. (Virtual SAN, SR-IOV etc)

(https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/oracle-vm-server-sparc/index.html),

but OVM Manager can manage OVM for SPARC located only on NFS.

OVM for SPRAC by it self have only CLI interface for management.

Regards,

Nik

Nik

Hi.

There is some confusion here as different products have been renamed and partially integrated.

OVM for SPRAC (LDOM) can use SAN or many other features. (Virtual SAN, SR-IOV etc)

(https://docs.oracle.com/en/virtualization/oracle-vm-server-sparc/index.html),

but OVM Manager can manage OVM for SPARC located only on NFS.

OVM for SPRAC by it self have only CLI interface for management.

Regards,

Nik